newbie at building a pc...help?

[aspire]

o right zalman 7000cu w 120mm fan

 

[c4sTr0]

the only thing thats holding me back from ordering these components is the damned video card. the radeon is a lil too much, when i can get a 6600 gt for $100 less.

here r all the 6600 gt's
which is a keeper?
http://www.newegg.com/app/SearchProductResult.asp?DEPA=1

 

[dale5605]

C4stro the x800 xl just dropped to $270, pretty sweet deal...
So that's like a $90 difference now. But do you realize that the x800 xl, if you spend the extra $90, is actually a better deal? It is a lot more powerful than the 6600 gt. Let me give you some quick stats comparison.

X800 XL
Memory Bus Width: 256bit
Memory: 256MB GDDR3
Pixel Pipelines: 16
Vertex Pipelines: 6
Core Clock: 400MHZ
Memory Clock: 980MHZ
RAMDAC: 400MHZ
3D Support: DirectX 9, OpenGL 2.0
Pixel Shader Profile: 2.0B
Fill Rate: 6.4 Billion texels/s
Memory Bandwidth: 31.36 GB/s

6600 GT
Memory Bus Width: 128bit
Memory: 128MB GDDR3
Pixel Pipelines: 8
Vertex Pipelines: 3
Core Clock: 500MHZ
Memory Clock: 1000MHZ
RAMDAC: 400MHZ
3D Support: DirectX 9, OpenGL 1.5
Pixel Shader Profile: 3.0
Fill Rate: 4.0 Billion texels/s
Memory Bandwidth: 16 GB/s


AS you can see it is a much more powerful card, especially in the memory department. Of course if also depends on the game, but in general the x800 xl is a very powerful high-end card while the 6600 gt is a weaker budget card.

If you don't plan on upgrading soon I would try to budget in the x800 xl, heck dropa hard drive if you need to. The video card is more important.

 

[c4sTr0]

damn....its 2x as good in nearly every aspect..
i think i just may take up on that x800 xl

but damn this bill has hit 12 hundred.

...i think ill just get a 5 finger discount or two at best buy

aspire-
alright there r 4 fans that meet that meet the discription you gave me, is there a difference at all? lol
http://www.newegg.com/app/SearchProductResult.asp?DEPA=0


but im gonna need aloooot of space on this rig, like i think 300gb's would fit me, but of course we cant get EVERYTHING we want....but we can get close
would it be smart to get like 2 120gb hard drives on a RAID mobo?

+would it cost an arm and a leg?

 

[c4sTr0]

NVM i found the fan.
this is it right?
Antec 480 watt 120mm fan ATX 12V v2.0 power supply, Active PFC, Model "NeoPower" - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?description=17-103-924&depa=1
$127.00

 

[dale5605]

That's the one.

About the hard drive thing, buying one large drive will usually be a little bit cheaper than buying 2 hard drives with half the memory each. But personally I think it is worth the xtra bit for the speed of RAID 0.

How did you budget get to 1200? It should be cheaper than that...

 

[c4sTr0]

-Abit "AN8" NVIDIA nForce4 Chipset Motherboard For AMD Socket 939 CPU -RETAIL -motherboard
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=13-127-197&depa=1
$145.00

-AMD Athlon 64 3200+, 512KB L2 Cache, Socket 939 64-bit Processor - Retail (core is a winchester) -cpu
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=19-103-502&depa=1
$190.00

-Corsair XMS Extreme Memory Speed Series, (Twin Pack) 184 Pin 1GB(512MBx2) DDR PC-3200 - Retail -RAM
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=20-145-450&depa=1
$162.00

-Seagate 80GB 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive, Model ST380013AS, OEM (2 of these) -hard drives
http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?description=22-148-019&depa=1
$60.00 x2

Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZS PCI Sound Card, Model "SB0350" -RETAIL -sound card
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=29-102-162&depa=1
$89.00

Rosewill ATI Radeon X800XL Video Card, 256MB GDDR3, 256-Bit, DVI, PCI-Express, Model "RX8XL-256PX"-RETAIL -video card
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=14-164-041&depa=1
$279.99

A-Top XBlade Black/Silver Ultimate Gaming Machine With 450W PSU & Side window, Model "AT859A-BK" - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproductdesc.asp?description=11-105-113&DEPA=1
$67.99

Antec 480 watt 120mm fan ATX 12V v2.0 power supply, Active PFC, Model "NeoPower" - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?description=17-103-924&depa=1
$127.00



-$1161.97

 

[AZNRockThis]

nice computer, its amazing how much prices went down since i first built my college computer

AMD 64 3500
Asus A8V
Western Digital EIDE 160GB
Corsair Value 2x512
Radeon 9800 Pro
Antec True 430
Lian Li Pc65
along with monitor, keyboard, mouse, speakers costed 2,000...amazing

 

[c4sTr0]

just imagine....in like 2 years r what ever the computer im building is going to be $500
my god.

 

[c4sTr0]

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